Small Business Mavericks

JULY 19, 2013

Yelp is probably planning to offer reservation management services to its many small business clients. Right now, the company offers advertising services for small businesses. The company started as a local business directory and allowed users to leave reviews of listed businesses.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 20, 2014

There have been some back and forth discussions about podcasting and the way it can be used for business. Small Business Mavericks wrote about podcasting at the beginning of 2008, and it had potential then as a small business radio program. Podcasting how to do a podcast podcasting small business radio program'

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The Realtime Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

You don’t want a name that ends up destroying your potential to achieve business growth. Here’s an example of why: Mark opened a content development business, Small Business Content Mark, 15 years ago and specifically served only small businesses because of his operation as a solo entrepreneur.

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Harp Interactive

DECEMBER 8, 2009

This is also the place that gets searched by directories like TweepML and Twellow when pulling words that people search for. Register your Twitter account(s) with Twitter Directories. Twellow bills itself as the Yellow Pages of Twitter Directories. Twellow is a directory of public Twitter accounts listed by categories.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 4, 2013

Google Panda virtually killed article directories. Press release distribution sites are directories for press releases. As such, they suffer from some of the same weaknesses – weaknesses that killed the article directories after Google rolled out Panda. Some of those article directories bounced back, but not all of them.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

If you’re a small business or new startup, you don’t have money to waste on expensive advertising like your bigger competitors can. Start by brainstorming with your business partners and connections to come up with several cheap outside-the-box marketing tricks. List your business in local business directories.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 4, 2011

The True Meaning Of Content » Why Article Marketing Will Never Die A couple of days ago I wrote about Google’s recent algorithm change and how it is beating down the article directories. I’m not willing to say that article directories are dead. Smart business owners change with them.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 1, 2013

and don’t go more than three folders/directories deep. Sitemaps – A sitemap is a directory of your web pages. Robots.txt – This is a text document you upload to your website’s root directory. SEO for Small Business 404 error pages on-site SEO robots.txt SEO sitemaps urls'

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 25, 2013

The question for small business owners is, How can you improve your mobile marketing efforts to make your mobile messages more responsive? Especially local search if you are a local business catering to clientele within your geographic area. Here are 5 ways I suggest you can do just that. Create smaller and simpler messages.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 12, 2014

Rich snippets are a small part of the microformat technology. These are: Person – If you have a directory of persons on your website or authors that write content for you, this markup will make it easier for the search engines to catalog those persons. SEO for Small Business microformats Rich Snippets schema.org search engines'

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 21, 2015

In the early days of Internet marketing, there weren’t that many channels for a small business to use for getting the word out about their business. Most businesses had a website. There were directories where those websites could be listed. They were often called article directories.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I added the location (oops) and got the only local franchise listed in a number of directories but no specials. How many times do you think one wrong number in a local directory has had a similar effect on your business? Look your business up and check the information in the local directories.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 28, 2015

Web directories – Remember when Web directories were all the rage? Everyone wanted to be listed in even the most obscure directories just for the coveted link back to their website. Now, few people want to be listed in directories. But some directories–like Yelp and Angie’s List–are incredible.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 25, 2012

Directories – Directories can sometimes still be good sources of traffic. Brochures & flyers – Pass out flyers and brochures to your clients when they come into your store or place of business. Business cards – Your web address is on your business card, right?

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 19, 2011

If you use directories in your linking efforts, replace the word “directory” with “document sharing site” and search on your keywords to find new submission sources. I hadn’t thought of that, but document sharing is becoming the new directory submission. But there was one thing that caught my eye about her list.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 19, 2011

Google slapped the article directories hard, so hard that you might not want to keep putting your articles there. But there is actually a better way to go about marketing your business and your website these days. d/b/a/ Small Business Mavericks, Minneapolis, Minnesota Website Design, Development & Promotion Services.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Your site needs to be responsive , your local directories need to be accurate, and your plans need to assume that many will be using a mobile device. Mobile Marketing for Small Business FCC auction 97 mobile marketing wireless' Why Do I Think Mobile Marketing Is Going To Explode?

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Bill Hartzer

JULY 31, 2013

All our links are submitted by our SEO experts in relevant niches with local listing, social bookmarking, document sharing, article directories, press releases, etc. Some of our clients are big, some of our clients are small, but they all get the same special care. ” Google Panda is not related to links to your website.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 5, 2014

If you aren’t monitoring all the listings that your business shows up in, you could be in trouble very soon. but because some local directories are open source and anybody can change the information, even if they are mistaken. The way you go about taking charge depends on the process each directory has in place.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 31, 2015

Directories – Directories are still an important source of traffic for many websites. List your business in directories like Yelp and Angie’s List to get found by local people searching for you, and your customers can leave reviews of your business, which are important for generating more website traffic.

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yMarketingMatters

JANUARY 19, 2012

Customer review websites are local directories that allow users to add and express their opinions about the various businesses in the directory. Visitors to the site can conduct a search for a plumber in San Diego and get listings along with ratings and reviews from customers of that business.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Article directories and similar content farms all took a big hit in search rankings. The lesson for all website owners, particularly those who run a business from their website, is to try and produce content that grabs people’s interest.

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Hootsuite

JUNE 28, 2022

Social media scheduling tools are some of the most useful items in a social media manager’s toolbox, whether you work at a small startup or a multinational enterprise. They’re also an incredible resource for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and anyone else managing social media while running a small business. RSS Autopublisher.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Directories and review sites can be great places to get your site listed so that your local business can be found online. Sites like Yelp, CityPages and Instagram are growing more popular everyday, and customers are using them to find local businesses. Usually, sponsored listings are good branding and visibility.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 26, 2012

You could buy links, pay for directory listings, and even pay to have people promote you through social media. These tactics are frowned upon by search engines and most ethical business owners. Directories - there are still a few quality directories that Google respects. In the past you could.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 27, 2013

A lot of these search engine submission services submit your website links to old directories that Google doesn’t even crawl any more. In fact, some of those directories may even be penalized, and if you are associated with them, it could hurt your website to have a link from them.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 11, 2012

As a courtesy and value-added service, American Express is building links and doing search engine optimization for many of their small business clients. Through a division called “ American Express Market 3D “, American Express is doing Inbound Link Building, Social Bookmarking, and General Directory Submissions.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 13, 2011

Some of the biggest slap downs occurred in the article directory niche. The top article directories lost tons of rankings within minutes along with traffic and revenue. What happened? The Panda Update, as it is called, was designed to target high profile sites with low quality content.

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Kikolani

JUNE 19, 2012

Gushcloud and UBL Small Business Marketing. Gushcloud business marketing crowdsourcing platform. Universal Business Listings (UBL). SpinLessPlates Online small business software. Home and Garden Web Directory. Also, be sure to check out the sponsors below who helped make this contest possible!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 17, 2012

Use the Disavow Links tool to submit page, directory, or domain URLs that may contain links to your site that seem ‘unnatural’ or appear to be from spam or low quality sites. that illustrates how it works: As you can see, Bing gives you a choice to disallow links from a page, directory, or domain. Photo Credit: searchengineland.com.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Article marketing took on a whole new air of importance and website directories were full of useless descriptions for the sake of a good link. Google showed up on the scene in 1998 and suddenly back links became the most important thing. Webmasters scrambled to get the best links from the best websites.

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Absolute PA

AUGUST 29, 2014

Social Media & Online Marketing blogging and content marketing small business marketing Social Networking' And the negative opinions of others don’t matter anyway. And, it’s usually this that stands between them and what they wish to achieve. Want to know more ?

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 16, 2012

Review sites – Websites like Amazon, Yelp, and other review sites offer business owners a way to get their customers talking about them. Every good review of your business or products is another step closer to a sale. Directories – Not all directories are created equal. Places like Yahoo!

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 26, 2014

Make sure your business is in all the directories your potential customer is using. I think that a good way to start seeing where your business could use some local internet marketing tips is by asking your friends to look you up on their phones and give you feedback. Make it really obvious who you are and what you do.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I like that you don’t have to sign up for the service as if it is a directory. If you have a Facebook page, that should be enough to put you in the directory of searchable businesses for your local area, provided that someone has Liked your page, recommended you, or starred you.

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

You relied on article directories and bad business directories. Now you’re trying to figure out why your website lost rankings and traffic. Here’s why: You paid for links. You engaged in reciprocal link building. You tried tricking Google with link wheels. You sent out low-quality press releases.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Article directories (yes, they still work). Niche directories. YellowPages.com, Yelp, and other online city directories. The search engines – Bing and Google organic listings. Pay per click ads. Knol pages. Guest blogging. Etsy, if you are a crafter. Foursquare. Google Places and Bing Maps. iPhone apps. Mobile websites.

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